Published Writings of Wilbur and Orville Wright - NASA's History Office

Court Records
The Wright Company Vs. The Herring—
Curtiss Company and Glenn H. Curtiss
Brief for Complainant and Abstract of Evidence on
Motion for Preliminary Injunction. United States Circuit
Court, Western District of New York. Springfield, Ohio:
The Young & Bennett Co., [1909], 163 pp.
Submitted December 1909 in appeal by the Wright
Company, filed August 18, 1909, to enjoin the
Herring—Curtiss Company and Glenn H. Curtiss from
manufacturing, selling, or using for exhibition purposes
the Curtiss aeroplane.
Opinion by John R. Hazel, District Judge. Circuit Court
of the United States, Western District of New York. New
York: C. G. Burgoyne, [1910], 7 pp.
Published also in Federal Reporter, May-June
1910, vol. 177, pp. 257—261.
Opinion of January 4, 1910, granting a preliminary
injunction to the Wright Company. Published with
Judge Hand s decision of February 17 in the Wright
Company Vs. Louis Paulhan suit.
Transcript of Record, Appeal from the Circuit Court of
the United States for the Western District of New York.
United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit. New York: C. G. Burgoyne, [1910], 476 pp.,
+illus.
Includes affidavits of Wilbur Wright given at
Dayton, Ohio, September 18, 1909, pp. 13—40,
December 11, 1909, pp. 252—253, at New York, March
12, 1910 pp. 431—434, at Buffalo, March 19, 1910, pp.
462—471; of Orville Wright at Dayton, Ohio,
December 11, 1909, pp. 251—252; and of Wilbur and
Orville Wright at New York, November 27, 1909, pp.
203—250, at Dayton, Ohio, December 11, 1909, pp.
261—271, and March 7, 1910, pp. 421—431.
Also includes corroborating Wright testimony,
defendant s affidavits as well as photographs,
exhibits, and numerous other documents introduced
into the record.
Brief for Defendants-Appellants, United States Circuit
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. New York: C.
G. Burgoyne, [1910], 53 pp.
Mr. Bull s Brief for Defendants-Appellants, United
States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
New York: C. G. Burgoyne, [1910], 17 pp.
Court Records
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Brief for Complainant-Appellee, and Abstract of
Evidence, on Appeal from an Order Granting a
Preliminary Injunction. United States Circuit Court of
Appeals, for the Second Circuit. Springfield, Ohio: The
Young & Bennett Co., [1910], 189 pp.
Submitted May 1910.
Brief [of Mr. Wetmore] for Complainant-Appellee.
United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second
Circuit. [New York: 1910], 7 pp.
[Opinion of Lacombe, Coxe, and Noyes, Circuit Judges,
June 14, 1910]. In Federal Reporter, Sept.-Oct., 1910,
vol. 180, pp. 110—111.
Reverses earlier order for a preliminary injunction.
Defendant s Record. United States District Court, for the
Western District of New York. New York: Appeal
Printing Company, [1912], 2 vols, [1142 pp.]
Includes deposition of Wilbur Wright, New York,
September 13-14, 16, 1911, vol. 1, pp. 78—125, and
other pertinent Wright articles, correspondence, and
documents including the file wrapper and contents of
the original Wright patent issued May 22, 1906.
Complainants Record. United States District Court,
Western District of New York. [Dayton, Ohio: 1912],
820 pp.
Includes extensive First Rebuttal Deposition of
Wilbur Wright, Dayton, Ohio, February 15-23, 1912,
pp. 473—614 (abstracted in Aeroplane, June 21-28,
1916, vol. 10, pp. 990, 992, 1034 and in Aeronautical
Journal, July-Sept. 1916, vol. 20, pp. 115—124) and a
Second Rebuttal Deposition, February 26-March 2,
1912, pp. 615—690 and also, in part, the testimony of
Wilbur Wright as originally given in the Charles H.
Lamson Vs. The Wright Company suit, March 30, and
April 3, 1912, pp. 780—808.
Also includes extensive testimony by William J.
Hammer and James W. See and by other witnesses
with introduction of Wright correspondence, records,
and documents into the record.
Complainant s Record-Appendix. Exhibits Reproduced.
United States District Court, Western District of New
York. [Dayton, Ohio: 1912], 151 pp., +illus.
Includes reproduction of original Wright patent,
photographs of the Curtiss, Willard, and Wright aeroplanes,
text of Wright-Burgess and Wright Aeronautic
Company licenses, St. Louis aviation 1910 and 1911
meet licenses, and extensive reference to Albert F.
Zahm s patent application no. 550,606, filed March
21, 1910, and to that of Glenn H. Curtiss, no. 586,425,
filed June 23,1910.